Latest Eric Swalwell accuser alleges he drugged and raped her

Washington — Another pistillate came guardant with allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell connected Tuesday, claiming the California Democrat drugged and raped her aft helium offered to assistance her vocation successful 2018. 

Swalwell announced Sunday that helium would be ending his campaign for politician of California and said Monday he planned to resign from Congress. Swalwell has called the anterior allegations against him "false" and suggested they were politically motivated to wounded his gubernatorial bid.

The woman, who identified herself arsenic Lonna Drewes astatine the quality league with her attorneys successful Beverly Hills, said Swalwell had invited her to a governmental lawsuit but they ended up astatine his edifice country due to the fact that helium said helium needed to get paperwork. 

"I judge helium drugged my drink. I lone had 1 solid of wine," Drewes said. "When I arrived astatine his edifice room, I was already incapacitated, and I couldn't determination my arms oregon my body." 

"He raped maine and helium choked me," she said. "And portion helium was choking me, I mislaid consciousness and I thought I died." 

Drewes said she did not get a rape kit and but disclosed the alleged battle to the radical closest to her and recorded the events successful her handwritten calendar. She said she besides talked astir the alleged rape during her therapy sessions astatine a intersexual battle halfway successful Connecticut. She said the hold successful taking enactment was "driven by fear" of his governmental powerfulness and inheritance arsenic an attorney. 

"It had a profound interaction connected my intelligence health," she said. "I self-medicated successful an unhealthy way." 

Drewes said she had met Swalwell doubly earlier the 3rd brushwood successful which the alleged rape occurred and helium had offered her connections to assistance with her bundle company. 

"He was my friend," she said. 

Drewes' attorney, Lisa Bloom, said they planned to instantly record a constabulary study with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Drewes suggested she came guardant present to "stand with the different women who person travel forward." 

CBS News has reached retired to Swalwell's lawyer for comment. 

Several women person travel guardant successful caller days aft the San Francisco Chronicle published an relationship from a erstwhile staffer who alleged the California Democrat sexually assaulted her doubly erstwhile she was excessively intoxicated to consent. Two women who accused Swawell of intersexual misconduct, Annika Albrecht and Ally Sammarco, told CBS News that Swalwell allegedly sent them unsolicited explicit messages connected Snapchat. A diagnostic of the fashionable messaging app is that chats and photos automatically vanish soon aft they're sent.

Swalwell's decisions regarding his governmental aboriginal came arsenic helium started shedding support from House Democratic enactment and cardinal members of his party, including erstwhile Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. He faced an investigation by the House Ethics Committee and an effort to expel him from the little chamber. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office besides confirmed Sunday that it is investigating intersexual battle allegations against Swalwell. 

The accusations against Swalwell person reverberated crossed Capitol Hill. About an hr aft the Democratic congressman announced helium would measurement down, Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas said helium would beryllium stepping down. Gonzales was besides astatine halfway of a propulsion to expel him from the House aft it was revealed he sent sexually explicit substance messages to a staffer who aboriginal died by suicide. Gonzales admitted past period to the matter and ended his reelection run nether unit from House GOP leaders.